Motion 4 to
Motion Studio

Here is a wrap-up of the major highlights since Motion 4.
A giant standalone desktop app, 6 new included extensions and a batch of helpful new tools for After Effects.

As a Motion 4 user, you can use a special discount of 50% for life on Motion Studio, until October 31.

New in After Effects

Grids

Overlay photography-style grids on active compositions. Balance content design to modern visual systems like the rule of thirds, golden ratio, V arrangement and more. Stack and combine grids, tune stroke color and width, and add or remove guide grids in one click.

Read the guide

Linked Color Palettes

Create a live swatch palette link to share colors across entire projects, compositions or layers. Adjust a color swatch in After Effects or in Motion Studio, and every linked item updates in an instant.

Read the guide

Align

Snap individual layers or groups to the edges and centers of a comp or selection bounds. Align 3D layers in Z depth and automatically recalculate and move existing keyframes.

Read the guide

Distribute

Space layer groups evenly between the first and last indexes, or use a fixed pixel gap size.

Read the guide

Arrange

Organize selected layers in a grid with customizable row and gap spacing. Use different layer bounds, or change the grid direction to arrange in perfect spaces. Turn on Auto and see adjustments live, 100% non-destructive to existing keyframes.

Read the guide

Custom Scripts

Code and customize After Effects scripts with the built-in Editor and Snippet library. Add Custom Scripts to Mini extensions to run anytime, or export them to share.

Read the guide

Key Cleaner

Analyze keyframes and remove redundant or unneeded keys while keeping original animation timing. Clean up busy bulk keyframes from motion tracks and converted expressions in one run. Or, use Key Cleaner to simplify complex scenes.

Read the guide

Re-Key

Save complete animations or selected keyframes (with layer styles and effects) as a reusable preset. Apply a Re-Key animation on top of an existing initial animation, or across a bulk group. Reusable animation cloning auto-scaled to fit the comp dimensions.

Read the guide

Copy Comp

Duplicate a comp with its entire hierarchy, expressions, connections and more. Expressions auto-update to point at the duplicated assets. Rename on the fly and create generations of clones.

Read the guide

Key Assist

Record all property changes as a scene to retime, build and think about motion graphics in a completely new way. Key Assist will auto-set keyframes to synchronize animations across properties and layers. Never worry again about keyframes lining up in the timeline.

Read the guide

Text Break to Text Layers

Split text into letters, words or lines. Break everything you type into vector shape layers or editable text layers.

Read the guide

Snapshot, cropped to layers

Save the current frame and selected layers as a high-resolution image. Auto-crop to the selected layers, keep transparency, and auto-save numbered snapshots to a folder. GIFs, compression and expanded media exports are on the way.

Read the guide

The Motion Studio app

Color Palettes

Use a color wheel and harmony types to design new swatch palettes, or sample and generate themes from images. Evaluate color theories with a contrast matrix to perfectly meet WCAG 2.1 requirements. Color changes and edits sync live to, and from, Motion Studio extensions in After Effects and Illustrator.

Read the guide

Easing Palettes

Organize and manage data for easing libraries with names, folders and icons. Supports web cubic bezier curves, all easing types, and syncs directly to and from Motion Studio extensions. Edit, export and import easing curve collections. Create a full Motion Mini or Mini tool from an easing library or folder, or use specific ease presets.

Read the guide

24,000+ Vectors

A supersized collection of searchable vector assets. Drag any vector from Motion Studio into Adobe applications or any other media app. Star favorites, copy vectors to clipboard, or export as SVG, PNG, JPEG or HTML.

Read the guide

Sketchpad

A hybrid animation canvas to draw and record interactive, instant assets to use in any media application. Coming soon: the ability to customize, draw, retime, edit and record in real time and use a multi-layer timeline with unique brushes like Electric, Particles and more.

Read the guide

Resolve Easing

A full-screen graph editor and easing suite for DaVinci Resolve Studio and Fusion keyframes. Drag bezier handles, set influence, reverse, add overshoots, and apply custom easing libraries from Motion Studio.

Read the guide

Splash Screens

Replace default Adobe application startup splash screens with custom images. Free your design workspace with inspiration and customized artwork to set the session tone.

Read the guide

Motion Mini

Design up to 4 compact Mini extensions with your most-used tools, easings, palettes, scripts and system commands.

Build it in Motion Studio

Customize tools with icons, colors, names, tooltips and parameters, and add alternative actions with modifier keys.

Run Minis in After Effects

Dock or float multiple Mini panels in any workspace, in vertical or horizontal layouts. One click to launch any tool or complex action.

Share Minis

Export and import Minis to and from other workstations, or collaborate on Minis with teams and colleagues.

Read the guide

New extensions

Motion Mini

Your most-used tools, easings, palettes and scripts in one compact panel, with the presets you set in Motion Studio.

Read the guide

Motion Color

Fill, stroke, eyedropper and copy/paste color for selected layers, with hue, saturation, vibrance and opacity sliders.

Read the guide

Motion Easing

Influence and speed panels, speed, value and cubic graphs, and your easing library in a panel of its own.

Read the guide

Motion Focus

Focus tools, actions and groups. Isolate the layers you are working on and hide the rest.

Read the guide

Motion Color

The same fill, stroke and eyedropper controls for Illustrator objects, with palettes synced from Motion Studio.

Read the guide

Motion Video

Easing, Grids, Sort and the experimental Switchboard multi-cam editor, inside Premiere Pro.

Read the guide

And it keeps growing

Monthly updates

Everything on this page is BRAND NEW to Motion Studio since the old Motion 4, plus many more UI updates and quality-of-life improvements shipped.
Every month, enjoy the latest and greatest Motion Studio, synced with fresh tools, packed with expanded abilities and brand-new pro extensions.

See the changelog

You decide what is next

Motion Studio has a massive roadmap of hundreds of new features and improvements, but we want to hear from you!
Suggest tools, ideas and new features on Futures, and upvote or add your comment to other users' requests. The top-voted ideas each month are included in the next version release.

Open Futures

Motion 4 toMotion Studio

Here is a wrap-up of the major highlights since Motion 4.A giant standalone desktop app, 6 new included extensions and a batch of helpful new tools for After Effects. As a Motion 4 user, you can use a special discount of 50% for life on Motion Studio, until October 31.

New in After Effects

Grids

Overlay photography-style grids on active compositions. Balance content design to modern visual systems like the rule of thirds, golden ratio, V arrangement and more. Stack and combine grids, tune stroke color and width, and add or remove guide grids in one click.

Linked Color Palettes

Create a live swatch palette link to share colors across entire projects, compositions or layers. Adjust a color swatch in After Effects or in Motion Studio, and every linked item updates in an instant.

Align

Snap individual layers or groups to the edges and centers of a comp or selection bounds. Align 3D layers in Z depth and automatically recalculate and move existing keyframes.

Distribute

Space layer groups evenly between the first and last indexes, or use a fixed pixel gap size.

Arrange

Organize selected layers in a grid with customizable row and gap spacing. Use different layer bounds, or change the grid direction to arrange in perfect spaces. Turn on Auto and see adjustments live, 100% non-destructive to existing keyframes.

Custom Scripts

Code and customize After Effects scripts with the built-in Editor and Snippet library. Add Custom Scripts to Mini extensions to run anytime, or export them to share.

Key Cleaner

Analyze keyframes and remove redundant or unneeded keys while keeping original animation timing. Clean up busy bulk keyframes from motion tracks and converted expressions in one run. Or, use Key Cleaner to simplify complex scenes.

Re-Key

Save complete animations or selected keyframes (with layer styles and effects) as a reusable preset. Apply a Re-Key animation on top of an existing initial animation, or across a bulk group. Reusable animation cloning auto-scaled to fit the comp dimensions.

Copy Comp

Duplicate a comp with its entire hierarchy, expressions, connections and more. Expressions auto-update to point at the duplicated assets. Rename on the fly and create generations of clones.

Key Assist

Record all property changes as a scene to retime, build and think about motion graphics in a completely new way. Key Assist will auto-set keyframes to synchronize animations across properties and layers. Never worry again about keyframes lining up in the timeline.

Text Break to Text Layers

Split text into letters, words or lines. Break everything you type into vector shape layers or editable text layers.

Snapshot, cropped to layers

Save the current frame and selected layers as a high-resolution image. Auto-crop to the selected layers, keep transparency, and auto-save numbered snapshots to a folder. GIFs, compression and expanded media exports are on the way.

The Motion Studio app

Color Palettes

Easing Palettes

24,000+ Vectors

A supersized collection of searchable vector assets. Drag any vector from Motion Studio into Adobe applications or any other media app. Star favorites, copy vectors to clipboard, or export as SVG, PNG, JPEG or HTML.

Sketchpad

A hybrid animation canvas to draw and record interactive, instant assets to use in any media application. Coming soon: the ability to customize, draw, retime, edit and record in real time and use a multi-layer timeline with unique brushes like Electric, Particles and more.

Resolve Easing

A full-screen graph editor and easing suite for DaVinci Resolve Studio and Fusion keyframes. Drag bezier handles, set influence, reverse, add overshoots, and apply custom easing libraries from Motion Studio.

Splash Screens

Replace default Adobe application startup splash screens with custom images. Free your design workspace with inspiration and customized artwork to set the session tone.

Motion Mini

Design up to 4 compact Mini extensions with your most-used tools, easings, palettes, scripts and system commands.

Build it in Motion Studio

Customize tools with icons, colors, names, tooltips and parameters, and add alternative actions with modifier keys.

Run Minis in After Effects

Dock or float multiple Mini panels in any workspace, in vertical or horizontal layouts. One click to launch any tool or complex action.

Share Minis

Export and import Minis to and from other workstations, or collaborate on Minis with teams and colleagues.

New extensions

Motion Mini

Your most-used tools, easings, palettes and scripts in one compact panel, with the presets you set in Motion Studio.

Motion Color

Fill, stroke, eyedropper and copy/paste color for selected layers, with hue, saturation, vibrance and opacity sliders.

Motion Easing

Influence and speed panels, speed, value and cubic graphs, and your easing library in a panel of its own.

Motion Focus

Focus tools, actions and groups. Isolate the layers you are working on and hide the rest.

Motion Color

The same fill, stroke and eyedropper controls for Illustrator objects, with palettes synced from Motion Studio.

Motion Video

Easing, Grids, Sort and the experimental Switchboard multi-cam editor, inside Premiere Pro.

And it keeps growing

Monthly updates

Everything on this page is BRAND NEW to Motion Studio since the old Motion 4, plus many more UI updates and quality-of-life improvements shipped.Every month, enjoy the latest and greatest Motion Studio, synced with fresh tools, packed with expanded abilities and brand-new pro extensions.

You decide what is next

Motion Studio has a massive roadmap of hundreds of new features and improvements, but we want to hear from you!Suggest tools, ideas and new features on Futures, and upvote or add your comment to other users' requests. The top-voted ideas each month are included in the next version release.

Your 50% off for life ends October 31

Upgrade to Motion Studio at half price, forever.Or try it free for 7 days first. No credit card required.

Or upgrade to the Ultimate Bundle

Motion Studio, Boombox Studio and Wander. Every Mt. Mograph product, one subscription.

50% off for life until Oct 31

Motion 4 to
Motion Studio

Here is a wrap-up of the major highlights since Motion 4.
A giant standalone desktop app, 6 new included extensions and a batch of helpful new tools for After Effects.

As a Motion 4 user, you can use a special discount of 50% for life on Motion Studio, until October 31.

Everything on this page is BRAND NEW to Motion Studio since the old Motion 4, plus many more UI updates and quality-of-life improvements shipped.
Every month, enjoy the latest and greatest Motion Studio, synced with fresh tools, packed with expanded abilities and brand-new pro extensions.

Motion Studio has a massive roadmap of hundreds of new features and improvements, but we want to hear from you!
Suggest tools, ideas and new features on Futures, and upvote or add your comment to other users' requests. The top-voted ideas each month are included in the next version release.

Upgrade to Motion Studio at half price, forever.
Or try it free for 7 days first. No credit card required.